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Games like Cold Sweat

If Cold Sweat is your kind of game, the closest matches are GRIDLANDS, Road to Vostok and The Cycle: Frontier — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.

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About Cold Sweat: Cold Sweat is a PvE single player extraction shooter set in a post-apocalyptic world. Collect loot, complete missions for traders, upgrade your base, customize your firearms, and shoot your way through other survivors and the undead.

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Cold Sweat — Steam game cover

Players who liked Cold Sweat also play

Steam players who put hours into Cold Sweat also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.

  1. GRIDLANDS

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Cold Sweat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Cold Sweat.

    GRIDLANDS is a PvE extraction shooter set in a fallen world where sentient machines hunt what remains of humanity. Scavenge, survive, and extract through hostile industrial dead zones where every run could be your last.

    2026ActionIndieEarly AccessSteam ↗
  2. Road to Vostok

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Cold Sweat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Cold Sweat.

    Road to Vostok is a hardcore single-player survival game set in a post-apocalyptic border zone between Finland and Russia. Survive, loot, plan and prepare to cross the border into Vostok, a permadeath zone where one mistake can end it all.

    2026ActionEarly Access19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. The Cycle: Frontier

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Cold Sweat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Cold Sweat.

    The Cycle: Frontier is a free-to-play PvPvE Extraction Shooter driven by suspense and danger. Prospect for resources and other riches on an abandoned alien world ravaged by a deadly storm, inhabited by monsters and other ambitious Prospectors.

    2022ActionMassively MultiplayerFree To PlaySteam ↗
  4. Deadline Escape

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Cold Sweat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Cold Sweat.

    Deadline Escape is a Low Poly Extraction Looter Shooter that throws you into a Post-Apocalyptic World. Scavenge for valuable resources, face deadly enemies and fight for your survival as the clock ticks down toward the deadline.

    2026ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Escape from Tarkov

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Cold Sweat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Cold Sweat.

    Escape from Tarkov is the original extraction FPS where every raid is a gamble with death. Prep your raid, bleed, endure and fight through ruthless PMC players and Scavs, gain tactical advantage and cling to your loot — only extraction decides if you live or lose it all.

    2025ActionSimulationMassively Multiplayer49.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Cargo Hunters

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Cold Sweat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Cold Sweat.

    Cargo Hunters is a single-player extraction shooter where you control a humanoid robot scavenging the remains of humanity on an abandoned, dystopian Earth. 

    2026ActionEarly Access19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Atomic Exile

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Cold Sweat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Cold Sweat.

    Atomic Exile is a top down post-apocalyptic extraction shooter set in the desert wastelands of near future America. You will visit enclaves, explore devastated ruins and encounter NPCs such as other survivors, raiders, mutated beasts and rogue machines.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Into the Radius VR

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Cold Sweat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Cold Sweat.

    Into the Radius is a single-player survival shooter in VR. Explore the Pechorsk zone filled with surreal landscapes and dangerous anomalies. Defend yourself with realistic firearms, recover strange artifacts, scavenge for loot, and uncover the mysteries of this unforgiving dystopian environment.

    2020ActionIndie29.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Cold Sweat.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Cold Sweat.

    Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Cold Sweat.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Cold Sweat.

    Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Cold Sweat.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Iron Snout

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Cold Sweat.

    Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.

    2016ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Cold Sweat

What games are most similar to Cold Sweat?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cold Sweat are GRIDLANDS, Road to Vostok, The Cycle: Frontier.
Who developed Cold Sweat?
Cold Sweat was developed by FreezeFire Games.

imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Cold Sweat.

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